We had a full house for our Pysanka egg decorating workshop with Wesleyan Dance Department Chair, Katja Kolcio. She and her husband have been using the technique for many years and offered to share her skill with us. Katja went through the process step by step and then our visitors got cracking making their own beautiful eggs – just in time for Easter.
The design is created using wax and you have to think about your color pattern in reverse. The wax creates a barrier where the dye won’t stick. So wherever you put wax first on the egg will remain white. Then you pick your first color, say yellow. After you dye the egg yellow, you add the next level of wax and all those spots will stay yellow. At the end, you carefully melt off all the wax and blow out the contents of the egg.
The traditional technique produces beautiful geometric patterns and we had some great artists at our workshop.
The workshop was such as hit, we’ve decided to do it every year around Easter. Keep an eye out for the next one and sign up early.
